Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Dynasty

Karen Crouse has a short profile of Jim Steen, Kenyon College's legendary swimming coach, who has coached the team to the longest running NCAA championship streak in history. At Kenyon, swimming is bigger than football, basketball and baseball put together, and it's all done for love of the sport.

He's also well known for what Crouse calls his "run on sentences" and quasi-zen pronouncements, my favorite of which is, "I don't, but if I did, which I do..."